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Although the Western world is predominantly occupied with apologetic works defending Christian doctrines, the term is of course wider.

Apologetics is the religious discipline concerned with the application of theology to the real world. It typically consists of taking any one of the many areas in which theology does not match up with reality, and producing extremely verbose explanations for why it's reality that's got it wrong. [1]

Canvassing the entire breadth of apologetics is a monumental task. Following the example of An Index To Creationist Claims, we will instead slowly construct a hierarchical list critically reviewing all theistic claims. In addition, our list will include apologetics for Naturalism, arguments attempting to demonstrate the plausibility and justifiability of naturalism.

In the following "god" takes various meanings, as appropriate to the specific argument. Usually the god of classical theology is addressed, a being that is omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly moral, a person, simple, and the creator of everything. More generally, the arguments support naturalism and oppose any sort of supernatural entity and even natural entities of immense power.[1] Certain arguments also address very specific gods, such as the Yahweh of the Old Testament, Zeus, and so on.

1 Philosophical Arguments for God

These are arguments that rely on little, if any, empirical input and evaluation. Instead, they try to argue from first principles, taking perhaps only arguably-philosophical principles (such as causality) as given. These also includes more evidence-based variants of the main arguments, however.

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↑Incidentally the case for superior aliens is stronger than the case for god. There is a known mechanism, Evolution by Natural selection. Aliens could theoretically exist generated that way. There is no known mechanism that could generate supernatural entities.